Recently, we’ve recieved a couple of interesting letters from readers of the HSB, so I thought I’d let the regular HSB readers offer their opinion to these chileheads with questions.
Subject:Hey, whimpy hot sauce admirer here with a question
Hey, my name is Brian and today I baught Blair’s sudden death sauce. I like hot sauce and never before had something like this. Im used to the tabasco sauces and Frank’s red
hot sauces that are out there. I like those hot sauces and thought I was superier to my friends because I could pour that on my food like it was Ketchup, and my friends couldn’t. Now I tried this Blair’s sudden death sauce and I feel like a boy among men. Where does this rank as far as hottest hot sauces.After reading your site, it is obviously not too hot for people like you. I enjoyed it to an extent, but i think i might have tried too much… i spread it with a butter knife on a cracker, a very good amount, and the only way i could describe what was going on in my mouth was that it felt like my tounge needed to take a piss. What would be your recommendation for a begginer like myself to try as far as the world of “advanced hot sauces” are goes?
By the way, i love your site and hope to hear back from you.
Brian – First, I would suggest taking a look at the list of hottest hot sauces on SNS, but you’ll notice that Sudden Death isn’t listed. That’s because it has not been tested for an accurate scoville rating. However, if that was a bit to hot for you I would suggest trying a more staggered approach (work your tastebuds up to the level of Sudden Death). Start with sauces like:
Crazy Jerry’s Mustard Gas – 125,000 Scoville Units
TorchBearer Slaughter Sauce – 67,582 Scoville Units
Blair’s After Death – 50,000 Scoville Units
**Note: Slaughter Sauce does not contain any additional extract, so all the heat comes from the flavor of the habaneros.
Re: Help Finding Caribbean Style Yellow Sauce
First I want to say thanks for reading my e-mail… Second thanks for responding with at least a question of another sauce. As I said in my original e-mail Matouks is very familiar in the bottle they use and there Calypso sauce is very familiar in color and taste. Maybe I didn’t stress the fact that we have tried every Matouks sauce and none of them compare to this no name brand sauce we are looking for. When we were buying this particular yellow sauce that came from Trinidad in the local vegetable mart we were also buying Matouks and enjoying them at the same time. We know the difference between Matouks and the sauce we are looking for.You offered up a red Matouks sauce. We are asking to help find a Bright Yellow sauce from Trinidad that has a very plain non brandaded label that says “West Indies” on the label. The main ingrediant is Habenaro….mango and mustard are ingrediants but not the soul flavor of the sauce. I’m happy I even got a response from you guys but you can do better.
Things to note
1. Bright Yellow in Color
2. Habanero is the main ingrediant. Mango and Mustard are ingrediants but not prominent in flavor.
3. The sauce is from Trinidad but also said “Wets Indies” on the front of the label.R—-
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On 1/13/06, Sweat ‘N Spice Customer Service < orders '@'sweatnspice.com > wrote:
R –It wouldn’t happen to be Matouk’s Salsa Picante?
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From: T—-[mailto: ——@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2006 12:55 PM
To: requests ‘@’ sweatnspice.com
Subject: Help Finding Caribbean Style Yellow SauceGood Afternoon,
I’ve been on a long journey trying to find a certain caribbean style hot sauce I used to be able to buy at a local ethnic vegetable market. This hot sauce came in a jar exactly like Matouk’s hot sauces. The sauce itself was bright yellow in color and looked almost exactly like Matouk’s Calypso Sauce. The label was very plain and generic and had no brand name or any distinguishable features. We do know for sure the sauce was from Trinidad and also said in small text on the front label “West Indies”. The main ingrediant in the sauce was Habanero. Unlike most yellow caribbean sauces Mustard andor Mango was not the main ingrediant and even though they might have been ingrediants in the sauce neither of these items stood out in flavor. It was just a good clean caribbean tasting yellow hot sauce that had a pretty high heat.
Unfortunately we through our bottles out thinking there wouldn’t be a problem buying more but the market is gone and we have no way in finding out how to get it. Matouk’s is the closest thing we can find to this hot sauce but it doesn’t quite cut it. If you have any information at all that can help in finding this no name trinidad yellow hot sauce we would really appreciate your help.
R——-
Trinidadian Hot Sauce Lover
Honestly, I’ve looked all over for a plain labeled West Indies hot sauce and I can’t seem to find anything that will work for this guy. Any readers out there with some suggestions?
8 responses to “Letters from HSB Readers”
Brian,
As for sauces hotter than tabasco but not extract level, El Yucateco is a good place to start. It’s much less hot than Blair’s, but has some heat and good flavor.
For the extract variety, Endorphin Rush at 33,000 SHU is a good place to start. It’s a smokey, non-tomato based sauce that tastes pretty good. Get used to eating that, and you’ll be on your way up the heat ladder.
Another good, natural option is Peppermaster’s hurricane mash. Very, very tasty, and pretty hot, but not nearly as hot as Sudden Death.
For the guy looking for the Yellow Hot Sauce.
We have an area in Toronto called Kensington Market that would be a great area to check out. There are a couple West Indie stores there that have shelves of West Indian sauces that are imported from there. Best I can offer is to keep my eye out for it the next time I venture to that area and report back.
I used Daves to get me into the hot hot sauces.
welcome.
I too started off with tons of tabasco on everything. When hot sauce became a hobby/passion, I started putting Dave’s hurt’n habanero which isn’t all that hot, but it packs a little more heat than tobasco. Then one of my Blair’s 3AM’s developed a nasty crack, so I started putting that in soups, but that’s still a little much to be using on a regular basis. These days I use sudden death quite frequently (since I have an extra bottle). What you need to do is find your comfort zone and step it up a notch. You already know that tabasco doesn’t quite cut it, and sounds like you’ve found what you can’t quite take yet. Find something in the middle and move up. That’s half the fun of hot sauces…pushing your limits
“the only way i could describe what was going on in my mouth was that it felt like my tounge needed to take a piss.”
Funniest thing I’ve read in a long time. Read it at work and actually burst out laughing. I feel your pain. Dave’s Insanity actually got me in to the extreme hot sauce. Now it’s not a problem.
Ian
Hello. My aforementioned name is Jordyn and I may know what the second gentleman is talking about. A while back, my sister took a trip to the Bahamas and brought me back two bottles of hot sauce: a tomato-based one and a yellow habanero sauce that was fairly plainly labeled. It had some color and a toucan if I recall, and I do seem to remember it saying West Indies on it somewhere. It was a tasty sauce and I devoured it within a few days of receiving it, and I’m not exactly a collector so much as I’m a consumer of sauces, so I don’t have the bottle. Anywho, his letter flared up my curiosity because I think I’ve had the sauce before and it was pretty damn tasty. I don’t know what else to say.
What the heck… I’ll give it a shot. The older Lottie’s Traditional labels were very plain looking and the bottle was very similar to Matouk’s. Another possibility could be Susie’s Original in the 12oz bottle. Hope this helps!
go to http://www.kingstonmiami.com
and click products. look under browse by categories and click sauces and condiments.
i think the one they have is the one that youre looking for.